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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Tristagma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tristagma (Greek, three drops, alluding to the 3 nectar-glands of the ovary). Including Stephanolirion. Liliaceae. Herbs with subglobose tunicate corms, used for fall-blooming. Lvs. radical, few, narrowly linear: scape simple, leafless: fls. in a terminal umbel, not numerous, pedicelled; perianth salver-shaped, tube cylindrical, 6-lobed; crown fleshy at the throat or lacking; stamens 6, in 2 rows; ovary sessile, ovoid; 3-celled: caps. loculicidally dehiscent.—About 7 species, Chile and Patagonia; probably to be planted in spring in this country. T. narcissoides, Benth. & Hook., does not appear to be in the American trade. It is 1 ft. or more high, with short narrow-linear lvs., and white fls. bearing a bright orange narcissus-like crown of 3-6 broad unequal more or less connate scales. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 Tristagma (Greek, three drops, alluding to the 3 nectar-glands of the ovary). Including Stephanolirion. Liliaceae. Herbs with subglobose tunicate corms, used for fall-blooming. Lvs. radical, few, narrowly linear: scape simple, leafless: fls. in a terminal umbel, not numerous, pedicelled; perianth salver-shaped, tube cylindrical, 6-lobed; crown fleshy at the throat or lacking; stamens 6, in 2 rows; ovary sessile, ovoid; 3-celled: caps. loculicidally dehiscent.—About 7 species, Chile and Patagonia; probably to be planted in spring in this country.
+T. narcissoides, Benth. & Hook., does not appear to be in the American trade. It is 1 ft. or more high, with short narrow-linear lvs., and white fls. bearing a bright orange narcissus-like crown of 3-6 broad unequal more or less connate scales.
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